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   Haters out in force I see. The share price was $16 when she started. It's now $48. It's irrelevant what she did or didn't do to get that.

False. More than 100% of that $32 increase in value was due to Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, especially due to its IPO. Yahoo itself ex-BABA lost value.

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I fail to see how this is an issue, but even if I concede the point, she still brought the stock up and created an exit for shareholders.

The goal of a resurgent Yahoo seems to only have been one shared by outside observers.

because she didn't do anything to increase the stock price? You could have an empty chair as CEO and it would be rose regardless. She made a lot of objectively bad decisions like Yahoo's stint in video, or the bogglingly expensive acquisition of Tumblr

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